Question
A murtad relative dies. What should be done regarding ghusl and burial?
Answer
Murtad is a Muslim who has renounced Islam. Even if a person does not openly renounce Islam, but rejects any of the essentials of the Deen, e.g. Salaat, Saum, Finality of the Risalaat (Prophethood), he/ she will be a murtad.
It is not permissible to effect the Masnoon ghusal, kafan and dafan (burial) for a murtad. It is also not permissible to hand over the murtad's body to his co-religionists.
The body of the murtad shall not be washed nor wrapped in a cloth. It shall be dumped into a hole and covered up in the same way as a dead animal is buried.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 26 No 12
- PDF page
- 8
Appears under TRANSGENDERS? (approximate).